nourishment

Hospital’s Rooftop Farm Creates a More Sustainable and Healthy Way To Care for Patients

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“Our food should be our medicine.” – Hippocrates

foodSara Tipton – Food is medicine and having access to foods that provide sustenance and health during illness and recovery is vital. One hospital wanted to ensure each patient was given nutrient-rich food during their stay and did the unthinkable: they made a rooftop farm.

According to an article on Reuters, one Boston hospital has taken health and nutrition into their own hands and they are literally using food as medicine. “Most urban environments, including hospitals, are food deserts and it’s difficult to have access to locally grown food. Having a thriving organic farm at your disposal is a more sustainable way to have local foods and ensure that patients receive healthy foods.” Continue reading →

Why Whole Foods Are More Than The Sum of Their Parts

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foodMargie King – What makes an apple so good for us? Is it the vitamin C? Vitamin K or B6? Is it the soluble fiber or the insoluble fiber? Is it the potassium or the phytosterols?

Or is it the apple? What a concept.

Western science is obsessed with deconstructing food, researching and analyzing its component parts, isolating the “active ingredients,” repackaging them in pills or powders and prescribing them in daily doses. But according to Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D., author of Food and Healing, this chemistry-based theory of nutrition is completely upside down. Continue reading →

Why Food is Actually Information

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foodSayer Ji – Despite being the condition for the possibility of all life itself, food is rarely appreciated for its true power. Far beyond its conventionally defined role as a source of energy and as building blocks for the body-machine, fascinating new discoveries on the frontiers of science reveal that food is also a powerful source of information.

We are all hardwired to be deeply concerned with food when hungry, an interest which rapidly extinguishes the moment we are satiated. But as an object of everyday interest and scientific inquiry, food often makes for a bland topic. Nonetheless, food is one of the most fascinating and existentially important topics there is, and in many ways, until we understand the true nature of food, and how it is still the largely invisible ground for our very consciousness, we will not be able to understand our own nature, or our own destiny.

How We Got Here

Modern Western concepts of food are a byproduct of a centuries old process of intense secularization. Food is now largely conceived in terms of its economic value as a commodity and its nutritional value as a source of physical sustenance.

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